You can now contact me by writing to yogo [@/AT] leprette . fr since I lost the ecoleworldycamino.org domain name.

You can always reach me also on couchsurfing.

Let's not make a short story long. For details you may read l'article des deux froggys sur les réseaux WWOOF et HelpX from which I have picked these two short extracts that give a pretty good idea of both websites: :

"Since 1971, there was an existing similar network :  WWOOFing.The concept is the same. In exchange of a few hours work, you earn your board and lodging. 
Originally,  WWOOfing was destined exclusively to organic farms, but now the network is wider and jobs can be found in hotels or even on sailboats!  Members of this network are called « Wwoofer's »."

and

"Created in 2001, HelpX is an "exchange of competence system" that encourages the meeting between  members throughout the world, to help, learn, discover local "know-hows", and allows small budget travellers to sleep and eat free, in exchange of a few hours of daily work. 

I would like to tell you about  cotravel :

It's a bran new service, that allows the meeting of other "travel maniacs".
Now, you'll tell me that other sites such as Couchsurfing do the same, but we're not talking about the same kind of meeting. 

Since the time I've been wishing to make this trip, since the time I've been waiting for this departure, I will have had plenty of time to find a travelling partner.... and yet....."NOGO" :-(  (Well, maybe not really, it'll be the subject for an article to come:-) Many were those who cheered "What a project!!, How I'd love to come with you!....... But when it comes to agreeing on dates (not to mention itineraries).... not many are left!

It's hard to find somebody to travel with, even with forums such as: http://www.evoyageur.com , http://voyageforum.com/ , http://www.abm.fr/ , http://www.routard.com , http://www.connaisseursvoyage.fr , http://www.lonelyplanet.fr .

I ended up solving the problem by deciding to leave on my own.

But some of us may not dare try to travel alone, and therefore cancel there project because of that.

What a Shame!

So....

If you are a traveller in search of a travelling partner(cotraveller), or wish to share a trip...?

If you wish to share parts of your trip?

 If you wish to find one or several partners for a treck in Nepal,.............. crossing Viet-nam on a bike.............;, scuba diving in Indonisia....., or even a week end in Prague  

cotravel will help you find the right person, FREE!

After one year without it, the manual translating system is back (not google)!

Install again this function took me a lot of time but I hope it's going to be useful and helpful.

I'd apreciate any advice to improve translations of my artilces.

I hope I will have a multillingual site to speak about my international projet, at least a full english version (english is a bit like the international language) but I hope also a spanish one.

Welcome to all translators!

I hope to colaborate again with my previous english translators. Anyway, don't hesitate to contact them if you want to help. I'm sure they will apreciate it and so do I. Same idea for spanish (Anyone offer me to help yet) or Italian. If you want to contact them, you'll find a contact form through the link on the right.

The New Indian Express, in Hyderabad, invite me for an interview on the day of my birthday, and today they publish it. This article is in english :

To download the pdf, it's here

and to read it on the newspaper website it's here.

The New Indian Express, in Hyderabad, came to my host's house for an interview. It was the day before my birthday, and today they publish it. This article is in english :

To download the pdf, it's here

and to read it on the newspaper website it's here.

Finally got around to it and went ahead and got my second vaccine shot, the one against the Yellow fever, named Stamaril. May I remind you that it is the only mandatory vaccine, as it is the only one that can be required by customs and immigration when you travel.

The shot must be administered in an International Vaccination Center. For me it was done at the university Hospital in Reims at Hospital Robert Debré. The shot are only given once a week on Tuesdays between 2 and 3pm.

Once you have gotten your shot, they give you a small Vaccination “passport”, which can open the door in certain countries.

At the Hospital Robert Debré, the consultation, the Stamaril vaccine and the Vaccination “passport” , costed me 34.98 Euro so about 48 US $.

Later, I will need to find a way to cross the atlantic from South Africa to the Americas. Here are three sailing websites.

Yes, I know, because that is were I started my search, there are plenty of freight companys that offer tickets to cross, but they cost money, and quite a bit! Expect roughly 100$ per day, and the crossing of the atlantic takes about ten days..........

So, let me introduce you  to  Sail The World, created in 1997 by a group of passionate navigators, they gather about 10 000 people and offer a number of services through their website (unhappily, the site is not translated, only in french!) According to Alain Richard, the President, " whether for a world tour, a sabbatic leave, a big cruise, for begginners or experts, there is always room for you on Sail The World. In 14 years time, we've become the reference for preparing a saiboat trip, and it is as well a mine of advice, an open forum, a meeting point for crew members, and a guide to  high seas. Sail The World gives concrete and practical answers to sea loving traveller's questions- may they be adventurers, handymen, mile eat uppers, fishermen, or even dreamers!" And what I am interseted in, is the Bourse des équipiers that allows the meeting of skippers without a crew, and crews without a boat. But, unhappily for me, they usually get together for transatlantic or other big crossings and not for the tiny Med...

Then, there is Find a crew, that, even if it doesn't give all the advice that Sail The World does, offers a lot more adds for skippers without a crew and crews without a skipper. The website is in English and Italian, too bad there is no Spanish or French..  And, once again, the small Mediterranee doesn't seem te be short of crews..... , yet I've been told that the escorting season is between March and June. I'll find out, it's not too late yet....

And at last there is  Amis de Jeudi Dimanche Bel Espoir et Rara Avis…

They implement Michel Jaouen's religion, Jésuit : "the mixing of people, in need or not, for the benefit of alll".

"We manage two three-mast skooners: "Bel Espoir" and "Rara Avis", and a fleet of small sail-, row-,or motor-boats, the island of Stagadon in the Iroise sea, a workshop for crew members, a base at l’Aber Wrach ( Finistère) and another one in Paris. We offer navigation and our knowing how to eclectic groups. It's up to you to tell us what you expect and offer from your personal richness."

I thought about contacting them for my project, especially the tranatlantic bit, but after a better look, they mention small sailboats... maybe they cross Mediterranee with them?

And here, I give you a website list where you can find and place an advertisement about the crew you are looking for:

 https://www.bourse-aux-equipiers.com/

 http://www.voyages-transversales.com/bateau2.htm

 http://www.lavoile.com/crew.asp

 http://www.equipier.fr/?id_rubrique=3

 http://www.bourseauxequipiers.fr/index.php?option=com_annonces&view=annonces&catid=2&Itemid=53

 http://www.bateaustop.fr/Recherche/Offres

 http://www.cotweb.com/indexx?search=annonces&rubrique=

 http://www.floatplan.com/

 http://www.vogavecmoi.com/

A few months ago, I devoured Ludovic Hubler's book until the last page. And in this last page, the author mentionned the project he had in mind: Travel with a mission

I quickly contacted Ludovic to learn more about his project and offered to lend him a hand.

Building bridges between teachers who are keen to welcome globe trotters and those who are globe trotting and are keen to visit the schools of the world, is what www.travelwithamission.org set itself as an objective.

The plan in a few words

A first notice about travelers using this website

There are more and more young (and sometimes less young) cultured and open minded people willing to travel a few months or a few years to increase their knowledge of the world surrounding them. These, often polyglot, fully licensed globe trotters, are more and more frequent on the world's roads. Before leaving, or on their way, they often realize that their journey could be useful to others as well.

This is "Travel With A Mission"'s (TWAM) "raison d'etre"

Our western consumer society is too individualistic, too self centered, let's say: too selfish!

And yet, more and more young people wish to be useful to help cure our sick planet, suffering from environmental problems, wars, and all sorts of social disorders.

The TWAM site will be a useful tool to all these young altruists, wishing to travel for a specific goal.

A second one about homebody's using this website

The development of new rechnologies across the world (and more recently the growth of social networks) has shown the need for people to learn from each other, in order to respect each one's right to be different.

Teachers have a crucial part to play in this field, as they train youth and encourage cultural exchanges.

Thoughout the world, teachers and training officers seek for means to allow youth to mix with other people originating from different social and cultural backgrounds.

TWAM will help teachers to meet this need.

Concept and Objective

TWAM is an interactive website that allows links between people willing to perform lectures throughout the world in every social or cultural environment (schools, universities, various organisations) and those likely to accomodate these lectures in their institutions.

It will promote :

• Intercultural dialogue and exchange of knowledge between nations/ ethnic groups/ communities/ religions...................

• "Intelligent travelling" and encounter between travelers and natives.

• Knowledge and "know-how" exchanges between individuals whatsoever.

• Help to globetrotters media coverage of tehir journey by means of a data base of journalists throughout the world, who are eager to publish orginal initiatives carrying a positive impact on the community.

If you wish to support this beggining project, or if you approuve of it, linf to the facebook page or send an email, and come discuss it at the first meeting in Paris on December 10th and 11th.

My world tour : surely one of my most important projects of life. I've dreamed about it from childhood. When I was 8, I planned it with my best friend.
I'm preparing it. Now, I want to live this experience and put it down on page of my history.

For this project, I'm Yogo. I'm 23 and I'm leaving in less than a year, I'm going to travel around the world.
I want to meet people, to go and truly meet them in their life. I want to share their way of life.

Concept

I'm going to travel from local place to another, from Turkey to Peru by many countries1.

The two subjects that I'm the most interested in are Energy (and environmental aspect) and Education. I studied Energy and I started working on it and probably carry on when I'll be back.

Education took me a big part of my commitment time. I have been an AFEV volunteer, I've got involved in "SUD étudiant" union, I taught children, and I always have been interested in "Petits Debrouillards" association works. I read a lot about alternative education.

I can't complain about education (school system) I had, because it worked for me. However, I complain there is only one system and we force all children to adapt to it, whereas it should be the opposite. I know there are other way to educate children and citizen. We should use cooperation and not competition, to build the self-esteem and not sanction by marks, to rise critical thinking and not bombarding people with knowledge.

Thus, I'm going to focus my world trip on education subjects. I want to attend “world school”, I want to learn with pupils, by them, from them, their language, their customs and the way they learn (and by the way how their teacher teach). I'm conscious there isn't school in each village of our world but I'm sure there are associations and volunteers everywhere and I want to highlight their work, at least through this blog. I'm going to meet women who create associations to learn, to train in order to go on and improve their futur.

This is the first definition of my project, my “daily” project...

I would like to enhance it. I'm looking for some special educating project that can be like big stages along my route.
I'm totally open minded and I will study any partnership to build a bigger project with a world NGO or association for example.

Means

I'm really worry about climate change. Therefore, I want to avoid planes. This is not really a problem for me, I prefer using local transport, walking, biking, hitch-hiking, bus, train, boat...

I'm going to travel as backpacker. I'll just have the subsistence stuff : some clothes, toilet bag and  first-aid kit, my passport and IDs and a VISA Card. I'm going to write everything down a notebook and I'll try to share as much as I can. I want to offer the possibility for people I'll met to write and express themselves in an other notebook, my "interviews notebook". For those who don't know how to write, I'm going to interview verbally. Do I bring a movie camera and a computer or just a camera and a handheld recorder? I'm afraid of the weight of netbook+movie camera and I think it's more disturbing.

Funding

I'm working this year as Energy Advisor for the Pays d'Epernay Terres de Champagne association. I should finance alone my trip.

Some people ask me questions about my job when I'll be back. I don't really think about it and I'm not afraid about that. All experiences I'm going to live will be unique and beneficial, not only because I'm going to discover other cultures but also because I'm going to developp my networking.

I may try to find jobs when I'll decide to stop somewhere in order to earn money along my trip.
For example, I would like to give some french, english, spanish or technical (energy, math...) courses to young pupils.
Of course I'll give a hand to all associations I'll meet on my way.

Finally, consider this blog as a way for me to learn from you. Don't hesitate to tell me your experiences and give your advice and "tips" around the world.

On thursday february third 2012, I had an appointement with the children from the paeditrics unit of the Valence (France) Hospital, according to my partnership with   enfant@hopital.

This meeting with children and tennagers from Valence, (nine of them, aged 10 to 17), made me very happy.

I believe they were all pretty intrigued by my project, and some seemed honestly interested. I had a bit of trouble juggling the various views and perceptions of the world, due to the age gap. I prayed them to ask all the questions that came through their mind, and if necessary, to interrupt me.